1. Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure (Arctic SDI) Pan-Arctic Cooperation among Ten Mapping Agencies www. arctic-sdi.org Magnús Guðmundsson Director General d National Land Survey of Iceland

2. The Arctic 1/6 of the earth’s landmass More than 30 million km 2 24 time zones Over hundred languages

3. Monitoring the environment

4. Why Arctic SDI ? Wide array of spatial data around the Arctic Datasets are distributed throughout many organisations often not integrated or coordinated Arctic SDI would allow for more robust management and manipulation of data for both research and management purposes.

5. Participating Organisations in the Arctic SDI: Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority National Land Survey of Iceland National Land Survey of Sweden Centre for Topographic Information, Canada National Survey and Cadastre, Denmark (Faroe Islands) The Government of Greenland National Land Survey of Finland The Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Mapping, Russia US Geological Survey, USA Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Working Group of the Arctic Council

6. Arctic SDI support Arctic SDI discussions have been ongoing for a number of years The Arctic SDI initiative received, after a request from the Nordic Mapping Agencies, the formal support of the Arctic Council at its Senior Arctic Officials (SAO) meeting in November 2009 Support of all the eight Arctic Council countries i.e. Canada, Denmark (Faroes, Greenland), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden and the United States The Nordic Council of Ministers and Greenland have provided funding to help insure the successful completion of the project

7. www.arctic-sdi.org7 7 PROJECT FRAMEWORK - Project phases - Arctic SDI Structuring Phase 2010/2011 Operational Phase 2012/2013 Establishing Phase 2011/2012

8. Arctic SDI - Vision - www.arctic-sdi.com 8 An Arctic SDI – based on sustainable co- operation between mandated national mapping organisations – which will provide for access to spatially related reliable information over the Arctic to facilitate monitoring and decision making An Arctic SDI – based on sustainable co- operation between mandated national mapping organisations – which will provide for access to spatially related reliable information over the Arctic to facilitate monitoring and decision making

9. www.arctic-sdi.org Arctic SDI Data Arctic SDI Portal Media, Public & Education Arctic Council Working Groups and other Scientific Communities Governmental Authorities Analysis DecisionEnvironmental & other political issues

10. Arctic SDI NationalSDI National SDI Common Arctic specifications and methods Arctic Arctic Specified Data USARUCADKSEFIICNOGL Thematic data Arctic SDI draft Arcitecture

11. Arctic SDI Expected results www.arctic-sdi.com 11 Access to relevant and updated geographical reference data and thematic information covering the entire circumpolar region Daily use of the project's web map services in schools and universities in the Arctic and elsewhere Possibilities for media to receive relevant and updated information Possibilities to foster cooperation with industry on Arctic issues

12. Area and reference map scale www.arctic-sdi.com 12 The Arctic SDI will cover the Arctic regions of the involved participating countries, as defined by the countries themselves. Scale It is envisioned that the Arctic SDI will be in the range of 1: 200 000 – 1:1 000 000

13. Project Organisation www.arctic-sdi.org 13 Working Group B (Reference and Metadata) Working Group B (Reference and Metadata) Steering Committee (NMA’s ASDI coordinators) Advisory Group - acknowledged professionals - Advisory Group - acknowledged professionals - The Board (NMA’s DG or corresponding managerial level) Reference group: Arctic council Liaison CAFF WG Reference group: Arctic council Liaison CAFF WG Working Group A (Technical) Working Group A (Technical) Project Management Group NMA Project Management Group NMA Decision making bodies Executive bodies Working Group C (Data Access Terms) Working Group C (Data Access Terms)

14. Status of Arctic SDI project Project Management Group is taking care of daily work (1,5 man year, Norway and Sweden) The Steering Committee is up and running, meeting in Reykjavík in April 2011 and Moscow in September 2011 The Project plan and Project Organisation were approved in April 2011 Two Working groups were started in September 2011 Advisory Group is active Establishment of the MoUs between the National Mapping Agencies in is in process The Board of the Project will meet soon (Directors Generals) Support from European Environmental Agency and EuroGeographics www.arctic-sdi.org14

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